Sack-holder.



PATENTED JAN. '6, 1903.

E. TAYLOR.

SACK HOLDER. APPLIGATIOH 11.31) 001?. 14,1901.

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SACK-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,779, dated January6, 1903.

Application filed October 14,1901. Serial No. 78,591. (No model.)

sacks or bags in position to be filled; and my invention may be appliedto vegetable and fruit sorters, grain-spouts, and a variety of otherapparatus for filling sacks.

The object of my invention is to provile means for securing sacks withtheir mouths open for filling and for quickly and easilyre leasing thesack when it is filled. Reference is had to the accompanying draw-Figure 1 is a frontj'elevation of one of my sack-holders attached toahopper of a potatosorter. Fig. 2 is a top plahgview of the same. Fig. 3is a side elevation of'tlie same. Fig. L is an enlarged detail View ofthe. detent-spring.

l designates a spout forming the lower portion of the hopper 2. Theside's of the spout are upright, as shown. Mounte'dtin bearings 3 oneach side of the spout u e rock-shaft 4, having a plurality of Spurs 5projecting therefrom. The function olithe'se s purs is to engage theupper part of to sa'c-ltn for sustaining the sack while it is beingfilled. Said spurs may be integral with the rock-shafts 4 or securedthereto in any preferred manner. One end of each rock-shaft 4 is bent ata right angle, as shown, to form a handle 4 for partially rotating theshaft, and thereby raising or depressing the spurs 5. When the handles4: are raised to a vertical position, the spurs 5 are thereby lowered,as shown in dotted lines, to permit a sack to be removed from the spout.When the handles are pushed down to horizontal position, as shown infull lines, the spurs 5 move up and outwardly, and thereby hold the sackin position while it is being filled. I

My preferred means for locking the handles 4' in lowered positionconsists of a spring 6, shaped as shown in Fig. 4c and secured to thefront of the spout 1. When the handles 4: are lowered, they impinge uponthe inclined face 6 of the spring, pushing in the spring until theshoulder 6" is passed, when the spring snaps out, leaving the handles 4:held down by the shoulder 6". To release the handles, an extension 6' ofthe spring is pushed in, thereby moving back the shoulder 6 far enoughto permit the handles t to be raised- The operation of the device is asfollows: The handles 4; having been placed under the shoulder 6 of thespring 6, the operator presses the upper edge of the sack upon thefigpurs 5, which puncture the sack and hold it \i ntil it is released.To lower the spurs and ielease the sack, the operator pushes in theeir'tension 6' of the spring 6 far enough to permit the handles to turnup. The weight of the filled sack acting on the spurs 5 pulls thehandles 4 up to vertical position and becomes released from the spins.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- A sack-holdercomprising a spout, bearings secured to opposite sides thereof, a pairof rock-shafts supported by said bearings, spurs ing bent at a rightangle, said spurs being so arranged that they are elevated when saidbent ends are pointed toward each other horizontally, and adetent-spring secured to the spout, said spring having an outwardly anddownwardly inclined portion 6' below its attachment to the spout, andhaving a shoulder 6" below said inclined portion said shoulder beingadapted to hold down the bent ends of said rock-shafts, substantially asdescribed.

in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN TAYLOR. Witnesses:

K. M. IMBonnN, M. L. Lanes.

on said shafts, one end of each rock-shaft be- In testimony whereof Iafiix my signature 7

